NEW AUBURN AND HUTCHINSON, MINNESOTA.
By D. P. Curtis
After resting a few days at home, and giving three discourses at Mapleton on my way back, I reached New Auburn on the 2d inst., and resumed work. Found the interest still good. I held some social meetings, and preached six times. Last Sabbath was a good day for that people. Thirteen more signed the covenant, making in all forty. Some ten or twelve of them were and had been Sabbath-keepers before. I think that with proper encouragement, and the help of the Lord, the greater part of them will become established in the truth. We still hope for several others, who are as yet undecided. May the Lord lead them into the clear light of the truth as it is in Jesus. We shall probably visit them before many weeks, if the Lord will. Yesterday, I came to Hutchinson to join Bro. Ells, who has been laboring here for three weeks, with some help from Brn. Hill and Babcock. A protracted union meeting had been running here for four weeks when he commenced, in the only church in town. This church had been promised to us whenever we were ready to come here to work; but, as their meetings were still in progress, a hall was engaged and prepared by the brethren, and meetings commenced in it. Immediately a more vigorous effort was put forth in their meetings, to hold the people from coming to ours. Fresh ministers were brought on from Minneapolis, and also a popular singer and organist. They commenced visiting those who it was feared would come to hear us. But, despite these efforts, some came, and gladly heard the word of truth. It is thought that some eight or ten have accepted “the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.” There are several openings a few miles from here, where labor is wanted, and after a few days we may leave here for a time, and then return. May the Lord direct us to his own glory and the success of the message. D. P. CURTIS. Hutchinson, Minn., Feb. 13, 1877.